A Painful Case
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"A Painful Case" is a short story by James Joyce that portrays the emotional isolation and tragic consequences of a reserved Dublin clerk's rejection of intimacy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Painful Case canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10184334 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Painful Case Context triple: [Dubliners, hasPart, A Painful Case]
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A.
Pain Court
Pain Court is a small rural Francophone community in the municipality of Chatham-Kent in southwestern Ontario, Canada.
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B.
The Clinic
The Clinic is an Irish medical drama television series that follows the personal and professional lives of staff at a busy Dublin health clinic.
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C.
The Patient
The Patient is a psychological thriller television miniseries centered on a therapist held captive by a serial killer who demands treatment.
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D.
The Agnew Clinic
The Agnew Clinic is a renowned 1889 realist painting by American artist Thomas Eakins depicting Dr. David Hayes Agnew performing surgery before medical students.
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E.
The Crime of Dr. Crespi
The Crime of Dr. Crespi is a 1935 American horror film loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Premature Burial," featuring a mad doctor’s revenge plot centered on live burial.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Painful Case Target entity description: "A Painful Case" is a short story by James Joyce that portrays the emotional isolation and tragic consequences of a reserved Dublin clerk's rejection of intimacy.
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A.
Pain Court
Pain Court is a small rural Francophone community in the municipality of Chatham-Kent in southwestern Ontario, Canada.
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B.
The Clinic
The Clinic is an Irish medical drama television series that follows the personal and professional lives of staff at a busy Dublin health clinic.
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C.
The Patient
The Patient is a psychological thriller television miniseries centered on a therapist held captive by a serial killer who demands treatment.
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D.
The Agnew Clinic
The Agnew Clinic is a renowned 1889 realist painting by American artist Thomas Eakins depicting Dr. David Hayes Agnew performing surgery before medical students.
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E.
The Crime of Dr. Crespi
The Crime of Dr. Crespi is a 1935 American horror film loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Premature Burial," featuring a mad doctor’s revenge plot centered on live burial.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | James Joyce ⓘ |
| collection | Dubliners ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
music
ⓘ
silence ⓘ train accident ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| criticalReception | widely studied in Joyce scholarship ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Mrs. Emily Sinico ⓘ |
| firstPublication | 1914 ⓘ |
| genre |
modernist fiction
ⓘ
psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
radio adaptation
ⓘ
television adaptation ⓘ |
| includedIn | standard editions of Dubliners ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | James Duffy ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| partOf | Irish literature canon ⓘ |
| plotElement |
news of a woman’s accidental death
ⓘ
protagonist rejects emotional intimacy ⓘ protagonist’s realization of his own isolation ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | bank clerk ⓘ |
| publisher | Grant Richards ⓘ |
| setIn | Dublin ⓘ |
| settingCity | Chapelizod ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| structure | single continuous narrative ⓘ |
| theme |
death
ⓘ
emotional isolation ⓘ guilt ⓘ intimacy and its rejection ⓘ loneliness ⓘ missed opportunities ⓘ repression ⓘ |
| tone |
melancholic
ⓘ
tragic ⓘ |
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